NASA is constantly developing new cameras to launch into space and snap incredible photographs of our Earth, Milky Way galaxy, and mysterious deep space objects. Here are some of NASA's most mind-warping images.

Nicknamed the "Hand of God," this object is called a pulsar wind nebula, and it's a cloud of material ejected from a star that exploded.

NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, imaged the structure in high-energy X-rays for the first time, shown in blue. Lower-energy X-ray light previously detected by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory is shown in green and red.

The pulsar wind nebula is powered by the leftover, dense core of a star that blew up in a supernova explosion.

The stellar corpse, called PSR B1509-58, or B1509 for short, is a pulsar: it rapidly spins around, seven times per second, firing out a particle wind into the material around it -- material that was ejected in the star's explosion.

These particles are interacting with magnetic fields around the material, causing it to glow with X-rays. The result is a cloud that, in previous images, looked like an open hand.

The Hand of God is an example of pareidolia, the psychological phenomenon of the mind perceiving familiar shapes in random or vague images.

The pulsar itself can't be seen in this picture, but is located near the bright white spot.

One of the big mysteries of this object is whether the pulsar particles are interacting with the material in a specific way to make it look like a hand, or if the material is in fact shaped like a hand. NuSTAR's view is providing new clues to the puzzle. The hand actually shrinks in the NuSTAR image, looking more like a fist, as indicated by the blue color. The northern region, where the fingers are located, shrinks more than the southern part, where a jet lies, implying the two areas are physically different.

The red cloud at the end of the finger region is a different structure, called RCW 89. Astronomers think the pulsar's wind is heating the cloud, causing it to glow with lower-energy X-ray light.

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NASA is constantly developing new cameras to launch into space and snap incredible photographs of our Earth, Milky Way galaxy, and mysterious deep space objects. Here are 10 of NASA's most mind-warping images shot in 2013.

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